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The Ten Faces of Weaning

It’s been a while since we weaned the boy. He’s five now and eats pretty well. Even the occasional piece of fruit sneaks in with the beige food.

I do remember with fondness the weaning stage. Especially the faces of weaning.

Face One: The “WTF” face

This is the classic “WTF is THIS?!” face. Expect to see this the first time you give your baby that nasty stuff that masquerades as “rice”

Face Two: The “WTAF” face

This one usually happens when you start to introduce flavour. They’ve just got used to rice pap, and now you’re introducing carrot?!

Face Three: The unfortunate moustache face

This is the one where you share a super cute picture of your baby on social media, only to be informed that he in fact now resembles an unfortunate historical figure…

Face Four: The I-Do-It face

Your baby is a tyrant, and demands to do everything by himself. Behold the self feeding face, which occurs when baby’s brain says “spoon, enter mouth” but baby’s arm says “Wheee!” and liberally smears baby’s entire face/scalp/ears/neck. Very rarely does spoon end up in mouth. Nostril is closest baby will get on first attempt.

Face Five: The Eww Face

This is the face that occurs when your usually happily filthy child decides that their hands MUST be cleaned! Immediately! Then filthied with the self-feeding insistence. Then cleaned. Then filthied. Ad infinitum.

Face six: Look Mummy, a hat!

Child, this is sacrilege. My spaghetti is far too tasty to be worn as a hat. NB expect yours to end up as a hat too. This face is saved for the messiest food possible.

Face Seven: It Wasn’t Me

Well, you didn’t give them chocolate! Did you? Ok yes maybe, but he was like 14 months by then. Be warned, this stuff gets everywhere. Welcome to the days of playing the excellent game of “What’s that? Is that chocolate or…poo?!”

Face Eight: We Will Fight Them On The Beaches

Also known as the breadstick fag face.

Face Nine: Too Cute To Care

This is when you turn your back leaving your child (you fool) with a spoon and what you thought was a mostly empty yoghurt pot. The baby you had deemed incapable of coordinated movement will suddenly develop ninja skills. You’ll turn around and it will be everywhere. But look at that face! Awwww!

Face Ten: Baby Biscuit Dilemma Face

Everyone will get one of these. Baby no nap. Baby want biscuit. Baby biscuit dilemma ensues.

97 comments

The PramshedApril 29, 2016 at 9:43 pm

Ha ha! I’ve seen all these faces, except for bowl on the head. I love all the faces, my face with my daughter is after she’s tasted banana followed quickly by it being thrown on the floor, oh and yoghurt face too. A lovely funny post Sarah. Claire x

Ha! I’ve seen all these faces, except for the ‘eww’ face – the Popple NEVER wants her hands and face to be cleaned. Ever. If she had her way, she would still be coated with smears of all the food I’ve ever fed her. #fortheloveofBLOG

This is amazing!! I think I’ve seen all of those faces mirrored on my boy. This must have been so fun to do. Love all of them but particularly the breadstick cigar and the chocolate innocence! Or was it poo!? #fortheloveofBLOG

This actually made me laugh out loud! Your little one is just too cute to care about all that mess 🙂 We will be starting weaning with Sophie in the next few months – looks like I’m going to have a lot of cleaning up to do! Thanks so much for sharing with us on our first week of #fortheloveofBLOG Sarah – really hope you can link up again next week! x

Haha, I’ve definitely seen all these faces! What wonderful pictures to look back on though. You still get to appreciate the cuteness but the mess has gone! Thanks so much for linking up at #KCACOLS. Hope you come back again next Sunday

Awesome photos! When my brother was little my dad took him out to the garden, highchair and all, and put the hose on him because he was in such a mess! I don’t let things get to that stage… Lol. x #KCACOLS

Oh this made me giggle, what gorgeous photos too! We have weaning in 3 months time for baby 2; looking forward to seeing the faces again (not so much the mess!) love the unfortunate moustache one! #fortheloveofBLOG

Brilliant! I love how you actually managed to get photos of all the different faces! My son is 5 and still does a ‘new food’ face when he tries something for the first time, it’s exactly the same face he pulled at 6 months! x #KCACOLS

What a fab post and the photos are just brilliant – your little one is so cute. I’ll be honest here, weaning nearly broke me. I found it so so so hard….although I’m now 6 months into the terrible 2’s and I think that might just pip weaning to the biggest challenge of parenting thus far! #chucklemums

Aw this is brilliantly cute! We have a lot of bowl in the head shots! Im so glad that my youngest is now 15 months because it means the worst if weaning us behind us. Although, we still get a lot of ‘I do it’ faces because he is determined to feed himself yoghurt with a spoon these days – arghhhhh! Thanks for hosting #chucklemums again

The WTAF face had me laughing like a possessed mad woman! Haha!!!!! Amazing!
They’re brilliant photos and it’s a super post, I was shuddering at all the mess and the number of baby wipes i know it woud’ve taken you to get that lot cleared up…roll on summer when they can eat outside like wild animals and make as much mess as they like! 😉
Gemma.x #chucklemums

Ha ha i hated weaning for this very reason! They make horrid noises when they chew and love squashing food in their hands and wiping in down themselves!!! p.s the pics are sooooo cute though and are going to make one little boy very red faced at his 18th birthday party! 🙂 #chucklemums

These are hilarious and sooo cute. Uurgh weaning – didn’t enjoy it much myself, why do they always insist on throwing the messiest food over their heads and getting covered in the foods that will stain EVERYTHING – spag bol! Fab post #chucklemums

Oh, the biscuit/nap dilemma! So funny. I have had similar with NC, who actually growls when tired and wants to eat something, so it sounds like a little tiger going to sleep. So sweet – love the photos too! #chucklemums

Maybe my Piglet is an unusual specimen of child, as his almost universal weaning face was the one not mentioned here; the Turning Away In Disdain From All Comestibles face. Weaning was a joy (still is). #chucklemums

You’ve totally nailed the weaning faces, very funny. The too cute photo is really lovely! I remember that WTF face when I gave my son pureed peas! yuck, poor child! I also remember the day when my son was eating in his highchair and just suddenly fell asleep , as a FT Mum it completely freaked me!
The Winston Churchill ref is inspired! Lush xx